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Beating Blitz: Building a Kick-@#! Bejeweled Blitz Bot with Python
Amaze your friends! Astound your family! Humiliate your Facebook frenemies!
Hi. I'm a nerd who built a kick-@#! Bejeweled Blitz-playing bot.
It scored less than 10,000 points on its first run. By the end, it could routinely beat the Bejeweled Blitz Guinness World Record in regulation game play and all the daily challenges, earning me tons of rare gems, all the while humiliating any Facebook friends who dared challenge me in the weekly tournaments.
How did I do it?
Follow along in my easy-to-read, diagram-rich guide, where we'll build a bot from the ground up, together. I cover all the gory details, including computer-vision techniques, move-picking algorithms, playing strategies, as well as tips for debugging.
Sure, this is a book about building a Bejeweled Blitz bot, but it's also about critical thinking and complex programming techniques. If you're new to Python (as I was) or programming in general (I'm a veteran), you'll have fun as well as learn some cool stuff. Oh, and there's this: nothing earns white-hat-hacker street cred like building a good bot.
Plus, wouldja look at how cheap this eBook is?! Sheesh, what do you have to lose?
(From the I-can't-believe-you-have-to-actually-say-this-Stuff Dept.: This product is an eBook and not the actual game. Duh.)
Hi. I'm a nerd who built a kick-@#! Bejeweled Blitz-playing bot.
It scored less than 10,000 points on its first run. By the end, it could routinely beat the Bejeweled Blitz Guinness World Record in regulation game play and all the daily challenges, earning me tons of rare gems, all the while humiliating any Facebook friends who dared challenge me in the weekly tournaments.
How did I do it?
Follow along in my easy-to-read, diagram-rich guide, where we'll build a bot from the ground up, together. I cover all the gory details, including computer-vision techniques, move-picking algorithms, playing strategies, as well as tips for debugging.
Sure, this is a book about building a Bejeweled Blitz bot, but it's also about critical thinking and complex programming techniques. If you're new to Python (as I was) or programming in general (I'm a veteran), you'll have fun as well as learn some cool stuff. Oh, and there's this: nothing earns white-hat-hacker street cred like building a good bot.
Plus, wouldja look at how cheap this eBook is?! Sheesh, what do you have to lose?
(From the I-can't-believe-you-have-to-actually-say-this-Stuff Dept.: This product is an eBook and not the actual game. Duh.)
81 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2015
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Spencer Seidel
9 books27 followersSpencer Seidel lives and works in suburban New Jersey but has also called Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine home. He is an honors graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and attended the Berklee College of Music to study guitar, which he has been playing for over 25 years. His love of reading and books began as a child after discovering Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Later, he was drawn to darker work by authors such as Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Jack Ketchum, who continue to influence his dark novels and short stories.
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